Not the best analogy. Despite the ‘imaginary’ moniker of the square root of negative numbers, they are every bit as ‘real. as any other number. Just ask an electrical engineer. They use Negative square roots all the time.

There was a time when negative numbers were considered to be nonsensical. Even zero had to be gradually accepted.

That said, I’m of the opinion that ALL numbers are purely imaginary. They happen to map well to real world situations, but do not exist per se.

Your post is interesting though and very thought provoking.

I will lock this info in my trivia box

Good point, Going beyond it there is an assumed principal that states that everything must have a reason or a cause. Yet this principal is inductive or solely based on empirical evidence which means that the connection between cause and effect it cannot be deductive, as demonstrated by David Hume

Universals or absolutes are secular stand ins for god [who stood in as the obvious guarantor of connection during Hume's time]. Our ability to make sense of the world is probabilistic only, there are no universals, or absolutes that can be deduced empirically. Yet the assumption of universals/absolutes are pragmatical useful ways for understanding of the world.